1. What can you see happening in this picture ?

2. What is the picture showing?
To define Karma
To give examples of Karma
To make a snakes and ladders board game

3. Why should bad karma be avoided ?
What your soul will be born into depends on your ACTIONS (=Karma) in this life…
Karma is the effect of your actions. Your actions have karmic consequences – it is the law of the universe for good karmic actions to produce good consequences, and bad actions, to produce bad consequences for you. There is no “judge” or God deciding what happens to you. It just happens.
Good karma, pays off with a happier life in the future.
Bad karma binds the soul (atman) to the cycle of rebirth, leading to misfortune in this life and poor conditions in the next.
Paying off all your karma, by continuous good actions, can free you from rebirth. This is called Moksha.
Explain what karma is.
What sort of actions are “good karma” (check what the 4 Paths said you should do)?
What sort of actions do you think are “bad karma”? Think up some examples
Why should bad karma be avoided ?
***how could an animal accumulate good karma, to get rebirth as a human ?

4. The Hindus invented a famous board game… to explain to their children the karma of doing good or bad actions..
Explain to your partner how this game could be useful in teaching the effects of Karma.
Write down your answer
What does the square 100 represent?
**What examples of good karma can you remember from the 4 “paths to Moksha”?

5. **What sort of actions should have the
1. LADDERS: GOOD KARMA: Draw 6ladders going up, using your examples from your “paths to Moksha” (knowledge, devotion, good works, meditation). Write the name of the good karma at the bottom of the ladder.
eg meditate, help others, read Holy Books etc
2. SNAKES – BAD KARMA Draw 6 snakes of different sizes, with their tails going down.
Label the head-square of the snake with an example of bad karma eg. .
Explain how this game could be useful in teaching the effects of Karma.
**What sort of actions should have the
- longest snakes - longest ladders? Explain why.
100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 61
62 drunkenness 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

6. Give a word that means the same as..
Atman Karma Brahman Moksha
Soul
God
Freedom from rebirth
ACTIONS and their effects